Articles on Mercer Island History
Mercer Island's history has been chronicled anew, and is available through Island Books, our local Mercer Island bookstore. Entitled Mercer Island History: From Haunted Wilderness to Coveted Community--please click on the book title for more information.
Please enjoy these topics about the Island:
- Mercer Island Women Who Made an Impact
- Luther Burbank School for Boys
- Riley Cove -- Honoring a Mercer Island Veteran
- Restoring the Lakeview School Teacher's Cottage
- On the Other Side of The Locked Gate
- That Red Door on 61st Ave. S.E.
- Marked Historic Places on Mercer Island
- "Dawn on the Island"; a historical video
- Lake Washington Floating Bridge
- The East Seattle Community
- The Mercer Island Fire Department
- Memories of Merrimount
- Before 1900 on the Island
- Sunnybeam School 1981-1984
- Back Issues of the Mercer Island Reporter
- East Seattle School Endangered?
- The Mercer Island and Lake Washington News (1912-1913)
- Stanley Dunham, Barack Obama's Mother, Graduates from Mercer Island High School, 1960
- City of Mercer Island turns 60 on July 5, 2020
- Tunnel Vision Creates a Mercer Island Connection
- Celebrating 50 Years of Mercer Island Youth Services
